While all the information was very interesting, and much of it was new to me in that I had not thought of crisis communication in those terms before, the piece that resonated with me most strongly is Peter Sandman's recommendations for outrage management.

When outrage is high but hazard is low, Mr. Sandman recommends an eight-hour…

This project, Participatory Research Mapping, involves personal interviews with indigenous peoples, primarily hunter-gatherers, to determine the location and extent of land that they require for subsistence. The way this was done was to collect oral descriptions of the land and also to examine maps sketched on the ground. Once this…

One natural disaster that could very easily happen locally is a large earthquake. Ushahidi has already been used to track earthquake data in Haiti and in Chile, so I reviewed those maps and made these preliminary lists.

It's May 5, 2020, early afternoon. A group of 15 Afghan women have gathered in the teacher's lounge at the school where they work. It's the midweek curriculum meeting, and they are comparing notes about how their cla**** are doing.

10 years ago, these women could not read, but thanks to the efforts of the Afghan Institute of Learning, they are now teachers themselves in a fully…

While I love the idea of hosting a party to collect donations (and may yet do this), it can't happen right now because of my travel schedule. Instead, I made a small personal donation through GlobalGiving -- and then I spread the word through my social networks.

It's impossible to find a good solution to a problem you don't understand. I think that the first place to start when looking for a solution is understanding the problem by listening to the people it impacts the most. The knowledge one gains creates a foundation for a solution to be built on.Listening to the right people also leads to understanding the circ***tances of the problem: what other social, cultural or political elements contribute to this problem? What has already been tried? Who…See More